small whale boats, with no other choice but to drag these boats and their few belongings
replacing the fabric and whale bone corsets of the time with rubber girdles, what he called "the living girdle" since it was made from a living material.
And these migrating whales were actually down on their way to the whale sanctuary in Antarctica.
As populations moved west and started building whale towns, up and down the Pacific Northwest, and then started building dams, we've been killing
The other thing is: this whale shark would pick one diver and swim towards it until you got out of the way or it forced you out of the way.
The average length of a whale shark here, according to some of the scientists there, is about 7 meters.
have unlimited opportunity to take pictures of whale sharks here. Every minute or two, a whale shark will just swim by you.
that they could put in whaling stations so they could get whale oil to help their industrial processes.
Long ago, whale oil was considered to be clean, cheap, and limitless.
But whatís great is itís very close to this whale shark aggregation every summer. On permit, these boats go out and look for these whale sharks that are feeding out there.
whaling operation and it's also been designated a whale sanctuary, so it's very much an illegal whaling operation.
You've got to decouple from that and just really be willing to work on whale time.
This is another whale shark, another split of a whale shark shot. This is a whale shark feeding.
the salt being carried back out -- what was gonna happen to the whale nursery?
This is a whale sanctuary and its very much an illegal, criminal whaling operation, so we would love to have the governments come down there and drive
I mean, where all these whales are going is actually right to people's plates and there, it's being sold for about 60 million dollars worth of whale meat a year, which is a criminal
of what I think of as the humane economy, which is whale watching.
You couldn't have even post it if you tried, because these are whale vertebrae and they're just washed up on the shore.
Their fossil fuels were cheap, they were cleaner than whale oil, and as any driller could tell you, they were limitless.
Each one of those fins is a whale shark.
Youíve seenóIf you go whale watching, youíll see tails come out of the water and slap.
Jeff Garlin: I'm happy they shut down that sushi restaurant that was serv, serving whale meat. Love sushi; don't want the whale meat.
But of course, then there was a huge innovation in terms of petroleum, which made whale oil obsolete.
You had lard oil, camphor, kerosene, whale oil.
And his story is extremely fascinating, both from a technical standpoint and for how he is able to change the conversation of whale conservation away from just
Of course, there are whale sharks too.
What weíre doing is trying to snorkel around this whale shark whoís